Two students injured after smashing car into electric pole

Speed thrills but kills - despite the Delhi Traffic Police's campaigns to drive home this truth, and despite the national Capital having one of the worst accident records in the country, youngsters continue to indulge in adventurism on the roads.

A group of management students had a lucky escape on Friday morning when they smashed their speeding car into an electric pole on the BRT corridor near Andrews Ganj in south Delhi.

The pole crashed down on the Mitsubishi Lancer car and smashed it into two heaps of scrap metal.

Reckless: Two management students were injured when their lancer car rammed into an electric pole on BRT corridor near Andrews Gunj area in South Delhi

Though the four occupants of the car survived, two of them landed in hospital with severe injuries.

The two were identified as Javed Ahmed Bhat and Hamad, both 25 and from Srinagar in Kashmir.

They study at the Indian Institute of Planning and Management at Chhatarpur. Bhat, who was at the wheels, was admitted to the trauma centre of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with a broken hip bone and multiple injuries, including in the head. Hamad fractured a leg.

The accident took place a 4.30 am when Javed and Hamad, stay at Malviya Nagar in south Delhi, had gone out along with two other friends, including a girl, to have food.

'They probably planned the outing on Facebook with other friends from the college,' Hamad's brother Imad, who works in Delhi, said.

Javed was driving the car while Hamad was sitting on the back seat just behind him.

The four friends were coming from the Saket side when they hit the pole. The police rushed to the spot and took the injured students to AIIMS at 6.30 am.

Javed is known among his friends for his love for speed and has participated in several car rallies.

'He usually drives very fast. It seems this time also he was driving rashly and lost control of the car.

The maximum damage happened after the pole crashed down on the car and hit Javed and Hamad,' Imad said.

Javed had earlier met with an accident on the Delhi- Jaipur highway.

'He had not replaced the car's airbag after that accident,' he added.

Doctors at AIIMS said Javed was out of danger after undergoing surgery.

'They did not seem to be drunk when they were brought here,' a doctor said. 'I have informed Javed's family over phone,' his friend Zahid said.